AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM, SAN DIEGO 2080 Pan American Plaza, No. 12, Balboa Park, 619-231-2886. Through May 26, BMW: Beyond the Initials, takes a look back at the remarkable history of Bavarian Motor Works.(www.sdautomuseum.org)

CASA DEL REY MORO MUSEUM, 2471 Congress St., Old Town, 619-220-0022. "The House of the Moorish King," ongoing, invites you to experience 6000 years of African World History. The museum's unique multimedia exhibits highlight ancient, colonial, and contemporary periods of African History, both on the African continent and throughout the African Diaspora. A special focus of the museum is the African-Spanish, African-Mexican and African-American heritage in Old Town, San Diego and California.(www.ambers.com)

COMPUTER MUSEUM OF AMERICA, 640 C St., Downtown. 619-235-8222. Secrets, Lies & Teletypes, ongoing, includes famous or infamous forms of cryptography, such as the WWII Navajo code talkers and "Follow The Drinking Gourd," an explanation of slave quilts. Also included are dozens of vintage computers and machines. Tours are available for groups upon request.(www.computer-museum.org)

CURRENT GALLERY, 3011 University Ave., North Park, 619-584-1533. Call for more information.

GALLERY 726-3 Ninth Ave., Downtown, 619-234-2770. Ongoing, public artist Doron Rosenthal has a new exhibit space in the growing artist community of East Village. The gallery's focus will be emerging and California talent.

GALLERY ON BROADWAY, 625 Broadway, Suite 115, Downtown, 619-239-5222. Ongoing, artist Rick Hohn's work is on exhibit. Hohn was born with cerebral palsy but has not let that deter him from creating traditional impressionistic landscapes in watercolors.

GALERIE D'ART INTERNATIONAL, 230 South Cedros Ave., Solana Beach, 858-739-0316. Through June 3, view the paintings of Vinca, the young French contemporary artist.

HALL OF CHAMPIONS, SAN DIEGO 2131 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, 619-234-2544. Bob Breitbard's moving museum features numerous ongoing sports exhibits, including: "The Gallery Wall," built around cover photographs from Sports Illustrated, the show honors athletes who made the leap from local to national fame (seventy-five SI covers featured thirty-five San Diegans). Others include "San Diego Ground Zero" and "Bird Watching," which cover San Diego's surfing and "board" cultures, as well as local skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, respectively.(www.sdhoc.com)

HISTORICAL SOCIETY, SAN DIEGO 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-232-6203. Through June 9, Filming San Diego: Hollywood's back lot is the history of local images and their evolution in the motion picture industry.(www.sandiegohistory.org)

MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOLK ART, Plaza de Panama, Balboa Park, 619-239-0003. Through May 11, Maestro le la Plata is an exhibit featuring William Spratling and the Mexican silver renaissance. Through July 20, From the Kilns of Denmark is an exhibition of studio pottery by 30 contemporary Danish artists. (www.mingei.org)

THE MUSEUM at CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS-ESCONDIDO, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido, 760-839-4120. LOOK. REACT. ENGAGE: The Art of Collecting at Two San Diego Museums is a year-long series of four exhibitions which will focus on works drawn from the American collections of the SDMA and the Center Museum's permanent collection.(www.artcenter.org)

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO - DOWNTOWN, 1001 Kettner Blvd. (at Broadway), Downtown, 619-234-1001. Ongoing, the Cerca Series explores the art that sustains the communities of Southern and Baja California. Through Sept. 14, in a first-of-its-kind partnership with the Maritime Museum of San Diego, MCASD Downtown will feature the latter exhibition, Mariners & Mandarins: Seafaring and the Arts of the China Trade, featuring art of the 18th & 19th century China, artifacts of the maritime commerce that initiated the burgeoning, blending Pacific Rim cultures. (www.mcasandiego.org)

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, SAN DIEGO in Balboa Park, 619-232-3821. Through June 4, the photo exhibition for the Quest Nature & Eye Photo Contest shows the winning photographs from this year's contest. Through Sep. 2, Dogs: Wolf, Myth, Hero, Friend follows the trail of how dogs and their relationship with humans have evolved over time. Plus, discover how wolves survive in the giant-screen film, Wolves. Through June 1, Rare Places in a Rare Light: The Wildlands Photography of Robert Turner is on display. (www.sdnhm.org) ww.mcasd.org)

MUSEUM OF MAN, SAN DIEGO 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-239-2001. Ongoing or permanent exhibits include over 900 pieces of art are featured in a new exhibit, Hecho en México: Mexican Folk Art; The premiere interactive Discover Egypt exhibit is in the Museum of Man's Children's Discovery Center; and Inquisition: Torture and Intolerance offers a compelling indictment against torture and tyranny; Footsteps Through Time: Four Million Years of Human Evolution; plus exhibits covering Ancient Egypt and Kumeyaay: Native Californians, on the first Californians.(www.museumofman.org)

MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS in the Casa de Balboa,1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. 619-238-7559. Through June 15, images and artifacts of William Fox Talbot, the father of modern photography will be on exhibit. Through June 15, the exhibition Secret Victorians: Contemporary Photographers Working in 19th Century Processes will include daguerreotypes, photograms, salt prints and albumen prints.(www.mopa.org)

SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-236-0011. On May 10, Saturday at 7 p.m., graduate students of UCSD Department of Music will perform their Spring Festival closing concert. Through June 15, the 46th Annual International Awards Exhibition is on display. (www.sandiego-art.org)

TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART, 1500 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-239-5548. Call for details. Through August 31, view American Masterworks from the Hood Museum of Art as well as various media by Benjamin West. (www.timkenmuseum.org)

AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM, SAN DIEGO 2080 Pan American Plaza, No. 12, Balboa Park, 619-231-2886. Through May 26, BMW: Beyond the Initials, takes a look back at the remarkable history of Bavarian Motor Works.(www.sdautomuseum.org)

CASA DEL REY MORO MUSEUM, 2471 Congress St., Old Town, 619-220-0022. "The House of the Moorish King," ongoing, invites you to experience 6000 years of African World History. The museum's unique multimedia exhibits highlight ancient, colonial, and contemporary periods of African History, both on the African continent and throughout the African Diaspora. A special focus of the museum is the African-Spanish, African-Mexican and African-American heritage in Old Town, San Diego and California.(www.ambers.com)

COMPUTER MUSEUM OF AMERICA, 640 C St., Downtown. 619-235-8222. Secrets, Lies & Teletypes, ongoing, includes famous or infamous forms of cryptography, such as the WWII Navajo code talkers and "Follow The Drinking Gourd," an explanation of slave quilts. Also included are dozens of vintage computers and machines. Tours are available for groups upon request.(www.computer-museum.org)

CURRENT GALLERY, 3011 University Ave., North Park, 619-584-1533. Call for more information.

GALLERY 726-3 Ninth Ave., Downtown, 619-234-2770. Ongoing, public artist Doron Rosenthal has a new exhibit space in the growing artist community of East Village. The gallery's focus will be emerging and California talent.

GALLERY ON BROADWAY, 625 Broadway, Suite 115, Downtown, 619-239-5222. Ongoing, artist Rick Hohn's work is on exhibit. Hohn was born with cerebral palsy but has not let that deter him from creating traditional impressionistic landscapes in watercolors.

GALERIE D'ART INTERNATIONAL, 230 South Cedros Ave., Solana Beach, 858-739-0316. Through June 3, view the paintings of Vinca, the young French contemporary artist.

HALL OF CHAMPIONS, SAN DIEGO 2131 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, 619-234-2544. Bob Breitbard's moving museum features numerous ongoing sports exhibits, including: "The Gallery Wall," built around cover photographs from Sports Illustrated, the show honors athletes who made the leap from local to national fame (seventy-five SI covers featured thirty-five San Diegans). Others include "San Diego Ground Zero" and "Bird Watching," which cover San Diego's surfing and "board" cultures, as well as local skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, respectively.(www.sdhoc.com)

HISTORICAL SOCIETY, SAN DIEGO 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-232-6203. Through June 9, Filming San Diego: Hollywood's back lot is the history of local images and their evolution in the motion picture industry.(www.sandiegohistory.org)

MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOLK ART, Plaza de Panama, Balboa Park, 619-239-0003. Through May 11, Maestro le la Plata is an exhibit featuring William Spratling and the Mexican silver renaissance. Through July 20, From the Kilns of Denmark is an exhibition of studio pottery by 30 contemporary Danish artists. (www.mingei.org)

THE MUSEUM at CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS-ESCONDIDO, 340 North Escondido Blvd., Escondido, 760-839-4120. LOOK. REACT. ENGAGE: The Art of Collecting at Two San Diego Museums is a year-long series of four exhibitions which will focus on works drawn from the American collections of the SDMA and the Center Museum's permanent collection.(www.artcenter.org)

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO - DOWNTOWN, 1001 Kettner Blvd. (at Broadway), Downtown, 619-234-1001. Ongoing, the Cerca Series explores the art that sustains the communities of Southern and Baja California. Through Sept. 14, in a first-of-its-kind partnership with the Maritime Museum of San Diego, MCASD Downtown will feature the latter exhibition, Mariners & Mandarins: Seafaring and the Arts of the China Trade, featuring art of the 18th & 19th century China, artifacts of the maritime commerce that initiated the burgeoning, blending Pacific Rim cultures. (www.mcasandiego.org)

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, SAN DIEGO in Balboa Park, 619-232-3821. Through June 4, the photo exhibition for the Quest Nature & Eye Photo Contest shows the winning photographs from this year's contest. Through Sep. 2, Dogs: Wolf, Myth, Hero, Friend follows the trail of how dogs and their relationship with humans have evolved over time. Plus, discover how wolves survive in the giant-screen film, Wolves. Through June 1, Rare Places in a Rare Light: The Wildlands Photography of Robert Turner is on display. (www.sdnhm.org) ww.mcasd.org)

MUSEUM OF MAN, SAN DIEGO 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-239-2001. Ongoing or permanent exhibits include over 900 pieces of art are featured in a new exhibit, Hecho en México: Mexican Folk Art; The premiere interactive Discover Egypt exhibit is in the Museum of Man's Children's Discovery Center; and Inquisition: Torture and Intolerance offers a compelling indictment against torture and tyranny; Footsteps Through Time: Four Million Years of Human Evolution; plus exhibits covering Ancient Egypt and Kumeyaay: Native Californians, on the first Californians.(www.museumofman.org)

MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS in the Casa de Balboa,1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. 619-238-7559. Through June 15, images and artifacts of William Fox Talbot, the father of modern photography will be on exhibit. Through June 15, the exhibition Secret Victorians: Contemporary Photographers Working in 19th Century Processes will include daguerreotypes, photograms, salt prints and albumen prints.(www.mopa.org)

SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-236-0011. On May 10, Saturday at 7 p.m., graduate students of UCSD Department of Music will perform their Spring Festival closing concert. Through June 15, the 46th Annual International Awards Exhibition is on display. (www.sandiego-art.org)

TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART, 1500 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-239-5548. Call for details. Through August 31, view American Masterworks from the Hood Museum of Art as well as various media by Benjamin West. (www.timkenmuseum.org)